Re: kopete

2006-09-13 Thread Roger Searle
Alan wrote: I have downloaded and installed kopete, and have loaded both ICQ and MSN and they both appear in the same screen one set below the other. Is there a way I can run them seperately at the same time??? Also getting the settings for ICQ... I normally run invisible but have the

Re: [Fwd: Re: Reminder: CLUG meeting - photo handling]

2006-09-13 Thread Roger Searle
You could try the Party Warehouse on Blenheim Road who have a helium balloons sign out the front... Roger Rik Tindall wrote: PS does anyone know how cheap a small supply of helium is? (balloons)

Re: Ubuntu update has done weird things to my laptop

2006-09-13 Thread yuda
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 21:47 +1200, Paul Swafford wrote: start with monitor type / refresh rate and screen resolution .. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FixVideoResolutionHowto I suggest you wind the refresh rate back a bit .. see if that sorts it .. good luck Paul Thanks Paul, Oddly

Using LaTeX or LyX to layout a screenplay

2006-09-13 Thread Ross Drummond
At yesterdays meeting Wesley and myself were speculating as to whether either LaTeX or LyX could be used to layout a screen play or similar dramatic work. We thought we could but were not certain. The answer is, yes you can. The hollywood cls (class) provides the functionality we sought. You

Re: Using LaTeX or LyX to layout a screenplay

2006-09-13 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 19:57, Ross Drummond wrote: At yesterdays meeting Wesley and myself were speculating as to whether either LaTeX or LyX could be used to layout a screen play or similar dramatic work. We thought we could but were not certain. The answer is, yes you can. The

Re: OT - the noise

2006-09-13 Thread yuri
On 12/09/06, dave wrote: On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:48, yuri wrote: Bah! The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one! You stole that line from the war of the worlds! DIDN'T YA!!! Yes. And I've had that stupid song in my head since yesterday. Ulla!

Samba Shared Directories Won't Delete

2006-09-13 Thread David Kirk
Hey, I've installed SuSE 10.0 and I'm running samba-3.0.20b-3.5. I'm authenticating against Active Directory. From my Windows XP PC I can create a folder on a Samba share, but I can't delete it again. Here is an example of what happens: The root of the share has full rights [EMAIL

Re: Samba Shared Directories Won't Delete

2006-09-13 Thread John Carter
I don't know the answer, but try this for a wild and woolly guess... Make sure nothing, neither Windows explorer, nor application, nor cmd, nor bash shell, etc. etc. has that directory as it's current working directory. On the linux side try... fuser -vu /my/strange/directory John Carter

Re: A Million Martians RE: OT - the noise

2006-09-13 Thread John Carter
You could fit quite a few martians into one of these http://www.nfi.org.za/Tswaing/images/what%20is%20tswaing.jpg http://www.hartrao.ac.za/other/tswaing/tswaing.html Quite a few million can fit in this one... http://www.hartrao.ac.za/other/vredefort/vredefort.html John Carter

Re: Samba Shared Directories Won't Delete

2006-09-13 Thread David Kirk
John, Make sure nothing, neither Windows explorer, nor application, nor cmd, nor bash shell, etc. etc. has that directory as it's current working directory. On the linux side try... fuser -vu /my/strange/directory fuser shows that the directory is not in use. lsof also shows the same.

Re: [Fwd: Re: Reminder: CLUG meeting - photo handling]

2006-09-13 Thread Rik Tindall
Roger Searle wrote: You could try the Party Warehouse on Blenheim Road who have a helium balloons sign out the front... Roger Rik Tindall wrote: PS does anyone know how cheap a small supply of helium is? (balloons) Thanks Roger. Correct track - $56 job - SFD counting. -- Rik

RE: [Fwd: Re: Reminder: CLUG meeting - photo handling]

2006-09-13 Thread Gordon Findlay
Got any money from Kevin yet? Need mine? Slainte Gordon Gordon Findlay, Academic IT Manager, Avonmore Tertiary Academy, Christchurch. ph: 03 977 2692 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The cares of tomorrow can wait until this day is done. -Original Message- From:

RE: [Fwd: Re: Reminder: CLUG meeting - photo handling]

2006-09-13 Thread Gordon Findlay
Oh shit. Meant to be private. Sorry. Slainte Gordon Gordon Findlay, Academic IT Manager, Avonmore Tertiary Academy, Christchurch. ph: 03 977 2692 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The cares of tomorrow can wait until this day is done. Gordon